X-Men: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of X-Men Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
One Man's Worth (1)
Sep 9, 1995
Bishop & Shard recruit Wolverine & Storm for a time travel mission to save Professor Xavier's life. Except they're from the parallel timeline where he died before founding the X-Me
One Man's Worth (2)
Sep 16, 1995
Bishop, Shard, and the alternate-present versions of Wolverine & Storm, will have one more chance to save Xavier from being killed before he founded the X-Men... if they can surviv
Courage
Sep 23, 1995
Morph feels he's finally ready to return to the X-Men. But his homecoming is interrupted by the return of the Sentinels, the robotic mutant-hunters who nearly killed him the last t
Proteus (1)
Sep 30, 1995
The long hidden secret patient of Muir Island, a reality-warping mutant teen known as Proteus, escapes from his 15 year long captivity, and wreaks havoc across Scotland searching o
Proteus (2)
Oct 7, 1995
Tracking down his father, who is now a candidate for Secretary of State, Proteus continues threatening lives with his uncontrolable powers. It's up to Professor X alone to try to s
Sanctuary (1)
Oct 21, 1995
Magneto builds a home strictly for mutants on the orbiting base known as Asteroid M. The message goes out worldwide of initial exodus, and he finds just as many eager to join him,
Sanctuary (2)
Oct 28, 1995
With Magneto seemingly dead, Fabian Cortez takes over Asteroid M, and initiates a nuclear war with Earth. The X-Men attempt to sabotage his warhead stockpile, and rescue Gambit, fi
Beyond Good and Evil (1)
Nov 4, 1995
Apocalypse steals Cable's computer in the year 3999, allowing him to time travel to the past, where he schemes to bring an end to his struggle against inferior mutants once and for
Beyond Good and Evil (2)
Nov 11, 1995
When Oracle, the psychic member of the Imperial Guard is kidnapped by Apocalypse, Professor Xavier deduces his scheme involves capturing mutants with telepathic abilities. The X-Me
Beyond Good and Evil (3)
Nov 18, 1995
After swiping the government's own time machine, Cable ends up recruiting the X-Men on his mission to destroy Apocalypse's source of immortality at its creation.
Beyond Good and Evil (4)
Nov 25, 1995
Two of Apocalypse's former evil allies, the captive Wolverine, the loose cannon Cable, and the exiled Bishop, come together to free the kidnapped psychics and save reality from bei
Have Yourself a Morlock Little X-Mas
Dec 23, 1995
Jubilee's first Christmas with the X-Men doesn't go exactly as she expected, when she, Storm, and Wolverine become involved with a mission to save the Morlock child known as Leech.
The Lotus and the Steel
Feb 3, 1996
Finding himself continually losing control, Wolverine takes a sabbatical to Japan, in an effort to find inner peace in temple-building. Instead, he faces a village under siege by a
Love in Vain
Feb 10, 1996
In a New Mexico desert, Wolverine witnesses the crash of a spaceship carrying horrific, alien bug-like creatures—the Family—which overwhelm him. Rogue reunites with her first boyfr
Secrets, Not Long Buried
Feb 17, 1996
Cyclops heads solo to the desert town of Skull Mesa, where humans and mutants live in harmony, to visit an old mentor from his youth. But he not only finds himself powerless when h
Xavier Remembers
Apr 27, 1996
Trapped on the astral plane after suffering a concussion, Professor Xavier is at the mercy of the Shadow King, and in desperate need of help from his X-Men, who are unable to hear
Family Ties
May 4, 1996
X-Factor's Quicksilver, and his sister, the Avenger called Scarlet Witch, seek revenge against Magneto when they learn that he was responsible for their birth mother's death. But t